The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-11
FINANCE AND COMMERCE.
Money 8 Per Cent, New York Ex'
change 1.S Premium.
eotton Quiet = Middhng Coston'
I-Iec-sales To-day $50
BALES.
APPEAL OERIcK,

hfPEAL OTFICEt
SATURDAY EVENING. September 10. 1887. :
Money rates are unchanged and
Arm at 8 per cent to customers. A New
York telegram states ttat the imports
OF gold this week amounted to SIS, 0Sl,-
oS0, Of which s2,950,4S2 came from
Europe and $l3l,l7S from South
America. This statement does not in
slude ST., 1856, 623 which came on the
Ems today, but which goes in next
weeks report. The exporis,of specie
for the week were 5000, 1856. OF which
S265,575 was in silver consigned to
Europe aud $40, $40 gold. The imports
Of merchandise for the week were
$6,s46,Oc6, including $2,lss. ITO in dry
goods.
The local cotton market remains
quiet and unchanged, At New Or.
leans middling and middling fair ad.
vanced 1.16c, with prices up 8 to s
points. The Liverpool market closed
steady with fair demand; prices ad-
vanced / point. New York spots
closed quiet and unchanged; Septem-
Der iuturfs up 6 points and the new
crop months steady.
The winners OF Latham, Alexander
4 Co.'s purse Of $500, for the nearest
estimate on the cotton crop Of 1856
81, are Msssrs. Howell 4 Brothers,
Pine Bluff, AK, thsir estimate being
6,505, 900 bales, only 81 short OF the
actual amount. 'Messrs. NJ. B. Litton
l. O.. aye the closes! to The crop Of the
Memphis estimates for the same purse,
their figures being 6 $4,000 bales.
The Department Of Agriculture re-
port OF the cotton crop August condl-
tions, ss compared with The July, 1887,
averages, shows tat North Csrolins
has lost points, South Carolina 9,
Georgia 10, Florida s, Alabama IL,
Mississippi ~, Louisiana s, Texas 10,
Arkansas IA and Tennessee IL.
The extent OF the rice crop and its
conditions, says the New York Bull
letin, is still . matter Of uncertainty
and amid the c1uflic,ing statements
exiant interested parties endeavor tc
work the course Of affairs TO their sd'
vantage. Thus far the bulls have
scored the creates! success, as lths
weight Of evidence seems to point Ia
sshortage a. least. though little oct.
ter information will be required Il
approximate the estimate to some
thing like p 1siive figure. Louisians
claims % TO 80 per cent. of In som'
eases, North Carolina 20 to 25 per cent
reduction, AID South Carolina M
essential change, and on the Atlanti,
coast tbs difference Is matter Of 70
ducsd acreage and not through dam
age to crop, which is said to promise
the most excellent showing on quality
IHP5Rrs.
Forty-two bfls apples, 100 sks bran
800 rolls hsgglDg, l22 psss bacou, 10
pkgs boots and shoes, 500 bu corn
300 pkgs cheese, 10 axis coffee, % sk
cotton seed, car cotton sesd, 100 brl
cement. oil pixies dry goods, 80 pkg
eegs, 500 brls A Dur, 4l6 bales hay, ~
pEgs lard. 5000 feet lumber, 4
pkgs liquors, $50 brIs lime, 30 brl
meal, 10 brls mola sss, 900 kegs nails
400 bu osts, 10 brls onions, IA brl
potatoes, s cars pork sides, 40 pkg
rise, 1855 brls sugar, 81 pkgs Tobacco
ard 600 bu wheAt.
KLEyAIoR REPORTS.
The following shows The amount O
grain received, Withdrawn and in stor
by regu ar elevators, ~ reported 4
the Merchants Exchange today
wheat-In store, 5l,24l bushels
Corn-R 'ceiy ed, 2745 bushels; with
drawn, 227s bushels; In store, 99S
bushels. 0sis-Reoeived, $50 bush
els; Withdrawn, 2255 bushels 10 stor,
1924 bushels.